Talisman Red's College Basketball Computer Ratings

Welcome to 2025-26!

This will be the 23rd year of my website. Wow, how time flies. Small screen? There's a menu at the bottom.

D-I game scores this year are again courtesy of Ken Pomeroy. Scores for D-II and D-III games are courtesy of Dr. Kenneth Massey. As always, if you see something out of place, please drop me a line.

Greetings to my loyal D-II and D-III followers...

As I say every year: thank you so much for your continued support. Click over on the menu under the Wilson section, or go directly to the D-II or D-III "everything pages" to get everything you need. Glad you are here.

In '25-'26 I'll again be producing almost the same content for the D2 & D3 women's teams that I produce here -- head over to check out those rankings & standings if you'd like.

Division I Top 25

For any hypothetical matchup, use the Points column to estimate a margin of victory and add 2.5 for home advantage, if necessary. Early in the season, ratings rely heavily on last year's results. A description of the other columns is below the top 25.

Direct links to other items: list of all teams rated  •  conference standings  •  a list of the conferences ranked  •  game predictions for the next few days

Ratings last updated 06-Jan-2026 07 AM EST.

 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
    1 Duke                  13  1     5.40    79.98    3    4  1    3  0    6  0 
    2 Houston               13  1     5.01    75.71    2    2  1    4  0    7  0 
    3 Michigan              13  0     4.89    73.90    1    6  0    4  0    3  0 
    4 Arizona               14  0     4.66    73.50    4    5  0    2  0    7  0 
    5 Alabama               11  3     4.54    73.70    6    5  3    1  0    5  0 
    6 Purdue                13  1     4.49    72.13    5    4  1    5  0    4  0 
    7 Gonzaga               16  1     4.43    74.29   10    7  1    1  0    8  0 
    8 Auburn                 9  5     4.38    74.53   14    2  5    1  0    6  0 
    9 Iowa St.              14  0     4.38    72.80    8    6  0    1  0    7  0 
   10 Michigan St.          13  2     4.26    70.94    7    5  2    1  0    7  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   11 Florida                9  5     4.24    74.72   20    0  5    2  0    7  0 
   12 BYU                   13  1     4.03    69.29    9    3  1    3  0    7  0 
   13 Texas Tech            11  3     3.97    70.58   15    1  3    3  0    7  0 
   14 Tennessee             10  4     3.97    72.81   24    2  3    1  1    7  0 
   15 Connecticut           14  1     3.89    69.31   13    4  1    4  0    6  0 
   16 Illinois              11  3     3.84    71.60   25    4  3    1  0    6  0 
   17 Louisville            11  3     3.82    70.38   19    2  2    3  1    6  0 
   18 Kansas                10  4     3.78    69.37   17    2  4    3  0    5  0 
   19 Vanderbilt            14  0     3.63    66.59   12    4  0    3  0    7  0 
   20 North Carolina        13  2     3.61    67.56   16    3  2    2  0    8  0 
  
 Rank Team                   W  L   Rating   Points  BCS   Top50   51-100  101+ 
   21 Clemson               12  3     3.52    67.30   18    2  2    4  1    6  0 
   22 St. John's             9  5     3.51    69.91   30    2  4    1  0    6  1 
   23 Nebraska              15  0     3.41    64.08   11    7  0    1  0    7  0 
   24 Kentucky               9  5     3.37    69.76   40    2  5    0  0    7  0 
   25 Texas A&M             11  3     3.34    67.01   26    0  2    3  1    8  0 

The columns you see above...

• Rank, Team, W-L, and Rating: hopefully self-explanatory
• Points: the column to use if you want to calculate a hypothetical margin of victory for any matchup. Just subtract. Adjust for home court if you need to, about 3 points
• BCS: a ranking system that uses only margin of victory, with no consideration of score margin. The old-timers would call this a more "politically-correct" system, like the ones used in the Bowl Championship Series for many years (hence the title "BCS")
• Top 50, 51-100, 100+: a team's won-loss record against teams in each of those ranking groups

 

 

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